Why stephenie meyer wrote new moon

As I started plotting New Moon untitled at that point , it became clear that Edward was Edward, and he would have to behave as only Edward would.

And, because of that, Edward was leaving. I tried to talk him out of it. I presented him with other plot options. I begged. Edward remained unmoved. The incident with Jasper acts as a catalyst, forcing him to act. He is determined to save Bella.

He thinks the best way to do this is to take the vampires out of her life. Is he being silly? In some ways, yes. Edward thinks so. So there I was, with Edward leaving. It was a hard pill to swallow, but once I accepted the inevitability of it, I had an interesting question on my hands. And writers live for interesting questions. Not some ordinary high school romance, not some random jock boyfriend, not anyone at all replaceable.

True love. The real deal. What happens if he leaves? The answer is different for everyone. I had to answer the question for Bella. What does Bella Swan do when true love leaves her? Not just true love, but Edward Cullen! None of those other heroines lost an Edward Romeo was a hothead, Willoughby was a scoundrel, Tristan had loyalty issues, Heathcliff was pure evil, Rhett had a mean streak and cheated with hookers, and sweet Gilbert was much more of a Jacob than an Edward.

I let Bella answer the question for herself, writing to see what she would do. It was hard to write her pain, because I had to live it to write it, and I was often writing through my tears. At the same time, it was always interesting. Bella surprised me with her grit and dogged determination. She pushed through the agony, living for others—Charlie in this case—as has always been her style.

Side note: there are those who think Bella is a wuss. There are those who think my stories are misogynistic—the damsel in distress must be rescued by strong hero. To the first accusation, I can only say that we all handle grief in our own way. I emphatically reject the second accusation. I am all about girl power—look at Alice and Jane if you doubt that. I am not anti-female, I am anti-human.

I wrote this story from the perspective of a female human because that came most naturally, as you might imagine. But if the narrator had been a male human, it would not have changed the events. That was the dam bursting. I'd been bottling up who I was for so long, I needed an expression. Though she'd been married for 15 years, Stephenie says she didn't tell her husband at first about her new passion.

I'd barely spoken to him because I had all these things going on in my head, and I wasn't telling him about this weird vampire obsession because I knew he'd freak out and think I'd lost my mind," she says. At first, Stephenie was documenting her dream only to make sure she would remember it, she says.

That's why I started writing it down -- not because I thought this would be a great story for a novel. Though Stephenie had been an avid reader all her life, she says she was never a writer before "Twilight. I did the dream. And then I wanted to see what would happen with them. It was just me spending time with this fantasy world, and then when it was finished it was like, 'This is long enough to be a book!

When I was 8, I was reading "Gone with the Wind" and "Pride and Prejudice" and all that, not knowing it wasn't my reading level.

Now that "Twilight" is a huge success, it's hard to imagine any literary agent rejecting it. But Stephenie says she'd submitted it to plenty of people before she was signed. Stephenie says it was her sister who really pushed her to keep submitting it to more agents. These days, the "Twilight"series is more than just a literary hit. Major themes in the Twilight Saga include love, choice, and the battle between good and evil.

Bella and Edward share a forbidden love complicated by the fact that Edward is a vampire. The major conflict happens between Bella and Edward. Edward assures Bella that if they are together, eventually Bella will die.